Flash Lite 3.1 features
There has been a wave of news originating from Anand’s post lately about Flash Lite 3.1 made available for OEMs. *Personally* I don’t see this as a big news, due it’s for OEMs, and I don’t see any large scale OEM to go for that, due most of them already licensed Flash Lite from Adobe: No big impact for Flash Lite developers.
Today Mark Doherty (Manager of Developer Relations at Adobe Mobile and Devices - EMEA) provided official(?) details about upcoming Flash Lite 3.1 and its features. According to Mark; Flash Lite 3.1 does not offer big difference, but some improvements like;
- Improved Web Browsing, 91% of top 500 internet sites.
- Flash 9 (AS2 only) support
- Local Connection / HTML Text / GetURL_target / CSS support / WMode
- H.264 support / Improved video support (smoothing, seek)
- Improved memory handling for images
- MP3 Streaming support
- Linux Reference port
Looking forward to see first S60 FP2 device shipped and test Flash Lite 3.1. And thanks to Mark for providing us details.
April 30th, 2008 at 2:23
AS2 only!!! What happend whith these guys?
April 30th, 2008 at 11:53
AS3 wouldn’t be a ‘dot’ release I would say :)
June 8th, 2008 at 13:13
Hey Ugur,
Actually dot releases are usually customer releases, we work on the core .0 features and then customers ask for some extras.
In this case Microsoft Windows Mobile will get Flash Lite 3.1, others will move to this also for web browsing.
Quantium: Despite not supporting AS3 the Flash Lite 3.1 player can display 91% of web content. That should tell you that most Flash desktop developers are still learning AS3.
Please don’t be fooled, Flash Lite runs on a huge set of chipsets and platforms, AS3 requires the new Tamarin tracing virtual machine to run on all of them and this takes time.
The project is open source, so if you want to help then feel free to speed things along..
September 6th, 2008 at 14:14
nice! as long as it supports flash 9 im happy!